When you live in a region where winter continues more than six months, you are forced to survive (at least, you need to kill your time while people from other climate zones are swimming, surfing, biking and hiking). Continue reading

Despite the old prejudices, now Siberia isn’t considered the back of beyond any more. Novosibirsk is the third biggest city in Russia with the branches of international companies, shopping malls, plants, and traffic jams. Hey, and we have UBER here! Continue reading

There is a special district in Novosibirsk called Akademgorodok (or Academy Town in English). This place is considered to be a scientific center of Novosibirsk and the whole Siberian region: there located the major Novosibirsk university, research institutes and the Technology Park. The latter is what I am going to show you today.

Vova and I are exposed to mainstream culture, that’s why last autumn we’d looked at a great number of the night sky photos and tried it ourselves. Unfortunately, our experience didn’t turn out to be very successful for a variety of reasons.

Strangely enough, but there exist a big difference between Siberia as a geographical region and as a Russian federal district: the former is bigger as contains more areas. That’s why not every Russian can say where Siberia is located and where its boundaries are. Continue reading

Recently (about 10 years ago) relatively high buildings began to appear in our city. I say “relatively”, because in other countries one may see higher buildings. Here, in Novosibirsk, a 25-storey house is cosidered to be really high in comparison with ordinary 5-, 10-storey ones.

I like roofs of such buildings, here you may see the city spread out behind you.